Stricter security plan angers private jets operators in U.S. - International Herald Tribune
The Beaurocrats in Washington found a way to create jobs. They want these to be in the private sector doing the job demanded by the government (Not producing anything for anyone.) They will be Security screeners for people getting on private airplanes. we will have to take our shoes off and get scanned for burning shoes..
One of the biggest convenience’s of private aviation is the speed with which passengers can get on the plane and off the ground.
But that may be about to change in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to extend to private aviation many of the security rules imposed on commercial airlines. Those include requiring fingerprint-based background checks on pilots, checking passenger names against a government watch list and restricting what items may be carried onto the airplane.
The proposal could affect 10,000 previously exempt air operators, including not only wealthy businessmen like Microsoft’s co-founder, Paul Allen, who owns a Boeing 757, but also fractional jet ownership companies and even some recreational fliers.
The proposal to extend the jurisdiction of the Transportation Security Administration to include private jets has angered many. Organizations representing private airplane owners have complained so vigorously that the Transportation Department has extended the comment period for the proposal and scheduled a series of public meetings. The first will be held Tuesday at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, one of the busiest in the United States for private and corporate aviation.
“Businesses have airplanes in order to transport what they produce, sometimes because it’s too difficult or impossible to carry onto an airliner,” said Ed Bolen, president of the 8,000-member National Business Aviation Association. “Tool companies that can’t take their own products, sporting goods companies that can’t take their own products on to their own airplanes, that doesn’t make sense.”
What I really want to know is who is going to pay for this? I see a new tax coming on Jet Fuel and AvGas and it will be very large.
I guess I need to figure out a way to become a Airplane operator auditor contracting to the DOHS and get some of that $196 million.
The last paragraph reminds me of the classic phrase, If it would save just one life, wouldn’t it be worth it? Like all of the other times this phrase is used the answer is NO.
Stricter security plan angers private jets operators in U.S. - International Herald Tribune
